A configuração da “parceirização” de serviços da assistência social na cidade de São Paulo

Abstract

This study aims to examine the current configuration of Social Assistance services contracted out to Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in the municipality of São Paulo. It is grounded in qualitative, bibliographic, and documentary research and is informed by the historical trajectory of struggles for social rights in Brazil and their implications for the implementation of the National Social Assistance Policy. The analysis situates the phenomenon within the framework of the 1995 Managerial Reform and the broader reconfiguration of the Brazilian capitalist state in its management and operationalization of the social question. It further addresses the externalization of state functions and the establishment of the Regulatory Framework for Civil Society Organizations (Law No. 13,019/2014). The findings indicate that, although this regulatory framework has advanced the formalization and transparency of public funding transfers to private entities, the municipal administration of São Paulo has redefined the participation and socialoversight formally embedded in thecontracting-out arrangement. In practice, this process has obscured the primacy of the public sector and normalized large-scale outsourcing through the systematic establishment and renewal of agreements. Moreover, these dynamics have directly affected the working relations and conditions of social workers, intensifying labor flexibilization and exacerbating fragmentation and pauperization within the profession